[RESEND v7 14/29] mm: swap in PMD swap entries as whole THPs during swapoff
From: Usama Arif
Date: Mon Sep 14 2026 - 08:44:12 EST
swapoff walks every mm and faults every slot of the device back in.
unuse_pte_range() only understands PTEs, so a PMD swap entry would never be
found and swapoff would never complete.
A PMD swap entry is a compact encoding for HPAGE_PMD_NR slots, not a
promise that the swap cache holds one folio for them. Add
swap_pmd_cache_lookup() to classify the covered range as empty, one
PMD-sized folio, or already split, and unuse_pmd() to map the first two
cases back in as one THP, preserving soft-dirty, exclusive and UFFD state.
Everything else falls back to PTEs: a split cache, per-page zswap state, a
failed PMD-order allocation or read, or a poisoned subpage. Check
PageHWPoison on every subpage rather than the folio-level flag, which
memory_failure() only sets after taking the folio lock.
All the fallback reasons are observed without the PMD lock and possibly
after sleeping, so they share one exit that re-checks the PMD is still the
entry we were called for before splitting it. That exit also drops a folio
that is not uptodate, or that has never been mapped, from the swap cache:
the PTE path cannot re-read the first, and would add a single-page rmap to
the second.
Signed-off-by: Usama Arif <usama.arif@xxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/internal.h | 16 ++++
mm/swap.h | 17 +++++
mm/swap_state.c | 44 +++++++++++
mm/swapfile.c | 189 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
4 files changed, 266 insertions(+)
diff --git a/mm/internal.h b/mm/internal.h
index 05179c4b2090e..ec7f007bc2c0d 100644
--- a/mm/internal.h
+++ b/mm/internal.h
@@ -24,6 +24,22 @@
struct folio_batch;
+/*
+ * Unlike folio_contain_hwpoisoned_page(), this does not rely on the folio-level
+ * PG_has_hwpoisoned, which memory_failure() only sets after taking the folio
+ * lock and so can lag a tail-page poison.
+ */
+static inline bool folio_has_hwpoisoned_subpage(const struct folio *folio)
+{
+ long nr = folio_nr_pages(folio);
+ long i;
+
+ for (i = 0; i < nr; i++)
+ if (PageHWPoison(folio_page(folio, i)))
+ return true;
+ return false;
+}
+
/* mm/workingset.c */
bool workingset_test_recent(void *shadow, bool file, bool *workingset,
bool flush);
diff --git a/mm/swap.h b/mm/swap.h
index 2321c9a2c2c58..0b54026f32d6f 100644
--- a/mm/swap.h
+++ b/mm/swap.h
@@ -311,6 +311,23 @@ static inline bool folio_matches_swap_entry(const struct folio *folio,
bool swap_cache_has_folio(swp_entry_t entry);
struct folio *swap_cache_get_folio(swp_entry_t entry);
void *swap_cache_get_shadow(swp_entry_t entry);
+enum swap_pmd_cache {
+ SWAP_PMD_CACHE_EMPTY,
+ SWAP_PMD_CACHE_HUGE,
+ SWAP_PMD_CACHE_SPLIT,
+};
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
+enum swap_pmd_cache swap_pmd_cache_lookup(swp_entry_t entry,
+ struct folio **foliop);
+#else
+static inline enum swap_pmd_cache swap_pmd_cache_lookup(swp_entry_t entry,
+ struct folio **foliop)
+{
+ *foliop = NULL;
+ return SWAP_PMD_CACHE_EMPTY;
+}
+#endif
void swap_cache_del_folio(struct folio *folio);
struct folio *swap_cache_alloc_folio(swp_entry_t target_entry, gfp_t gfp_mask,
unsigned long orders, struct vm_fault *vmf,
diff --git a/mm/swap_state.c b/mm/swap_state.c
index 251b48b2c60e1..15f93b9a3eb2a 100644
--- a/mm/swap_state.c
+++ b/mm/swap_state.c
@@ -125,6 +125,50 @@ bool swap_cache_has_folio(swp_entry_t entry)
return swp_tb_is_folio(swp_tb);
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
+/**
+ * swap_pmd_cache_lookup - classify the swap cache behind a PMD swap entry
+ * @entry: first swap slot encoded by the PMD swap entry
+ * @foliop: returned PMD-sized folio, with a reference, if present
+ *
+ * A PMD swap entry is a compact page-table encoding for HPAGE_PMD_NR
+ * consecutive swap slots. The swap cache behind those slots can be empty,
+ * one PMD-sized folio, or per-slot folios after the original folio was split.
+ *
+ * Context: Caller must keep @entry valid using the usual swap cache rules.
+ * Return: SWAP_PMD_CACHE_EMPTY if no slot in the PMD range has a cached folio,
+ * SWAP_PMD_CACHE_HUGE if one PMD-sized folio covers the range, or
+ * SWAP_PMD_CACHE_SPLIT if the range needs per-page handling.
+ */
+enum swap_pmd_cache swap_pmd_cache_lookup(swp_entry_t entry,
+ struct folio **foliop)
+{
+ unsigned int type = swp_type(entry);
+ pgoff_t offset = swp_offset(entry);
+ struct folio *folio;
+ int i;
+
+ *foliop = NULL;
+
+ folio = swap_cache_get_folio(entry);
+ if (folio) {
+ if (folio_nr_pages(folio) == HPAGE_PMD_NR) {
+ *foliop = folio;
+ return SWAP_PMD_CACHE_HUGE;
+ }
+ folio_put(folio);
+ return SWAP_PMD_CACHE_SPLIT;
+ }
+
+ for (i = 1; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++) {
+ if (swap_cache_has_folio(swp_entry(type, offset + i)))
+ return SWAP_PMD_CACHE_SPLIT;
+ }
+
+ return SWAP_PMD_CACHE_EMPTY;
+}
+#endif
+
/**
* swap_cache_get_shadow - Looks up a shadow in the swap cache.
* @entry: swap entry used for the lookup.
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 27ae3964a158e..fe3cadfc3a017 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
#include <linux/suspend.h>
#include <linux/zswap.h>
#include <linux/plist.h>
+#include <linux/huge_mm.h>
#include <asm/tlbflush.h>
#include <linux/leafops.h>
@@ -2696,6 +2697,182 @@ static int unuse_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
return 0;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_THP_SWAP
+/*
+ * unuse_pmd - Map a locked folio at PMD granularity during swapoff.
+ *
+ * The caller provides a locked, swapped-in folio. Returns 0 on success
+ * (PMD was mapped). Returns -EAGAIN if the swap cache folio no longer
+ * matches the entry or the PMD changed under the lock (try_to_unuse will
+ * rescan). Returns -EIO if the folio is not uptodate or contains a poisoned
+ * subpage; in that case the PMD is split so unuse_pte_range() can handle
+ * individual pages.
+ */
+static int unuse_pmd(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+ unsigned long addr, softleaf_t entry,
+ struct folio *folio)
+{
+ struct mm_struct *mm = vma->vm_mm;
+ struct page *page;
+ pmd_t new_pmd, old_pmd;
+ spinlock_t *ptl;
+ rmap_t rmap_flags = RMAP_NONE;
+ bool exclusive;
+
+ if (unlikely(!folio_matches_swap_entry(folio, entry)))
+ return -EAGAIN;
+
+ /* Let PTE fallback reread each slot, or isolate the poisoned ones. */
+ if (unlikely(!folio_test_uptodate(folio)))
+ return -EIO;
+ if (unlikely(folio_has_hwpoisoned_subpage(folio)))
+ return -EIO;
+
+ page = folio_page(folio, 0);
+
+ ptl = pmd_lock(mm, pmd);
+ old_pmd = pmdp_get(pmd);
+
+ if (!pmd_is_swap_entry(old_pmd) ||
+ softleaf_from_pmd(old_pmd).val != entry.val) {
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+ return -EAGAIN;
+ }
+
+ exclusive = pmd_swp_exclusive(old_pmd);
+
+ /*
+ * Some architectures may have to restore extra metadata to the folio
+ * when reading from swap. This metadata may be indexed by swap entry
+ * so this must be called before folio_put_swap().
+ */
+ arch_swap_restore(folio_swap(entry, folio), folio);
+
+ add_mm_counter(mm, MM_ANONPAGES, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
+ add_mm_counter(mm, MM_SWAPENTS, -HPAGE_PMD_NR);
+
+ new_pmd = folio_mk_pmd(folio, vma->vm_page_prot);
+ new_pmd = pmd_mkold(new_pmd);
+ if (pmd_swp_soft_dirty(old_pmd))
+ new_pmd = pmd_mksoft_dirty(new_pmd);
+ if (pmd_swp_uffd(old_pmd))
+ new_pmd = pmd_mkuffd(new_pmd);
+ if (pmd_swp_uffd(old_pmd) && userfaultfd_rwp(vma))
+ new_pmd = pmd_modify(new_pmd, PAGE_NONE);
+
+ if (exclusive)
+ rmap_flags |= RMAP_EXCLUSIVE;
+
+ folio_get(folio);
+ if (!folio_test_anon(folio))
+ folio_add_new_anon_rmap(folio, vma, addr, rmap_flags);
+ else
+ folio_add_anon_rmap_pmd(folio, page, vma, addr, rmap_flags);
+
+ set_pmd_at(mm, addr, pmd, new_pmd);
+ folio_put_swap(folio, NULL);
+
+ spin_unlock(ptl);
+
+ folio_free_swap(folio);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Try to swap in a PMD swap entry as a whole THP. Returns 0 on success.
+ * If the swap cache no longer has one PMD-sized folio, zswap may require
+ * per-page loading, or a PMD-order allocation/read fails, split the PMD so
+ * the caller can fall back to unuse_pte_range(). Otherwise propagates the
+ * error from unuse_pmd().
+ */
+static int unuse_pmd_entry(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+ unsigned long addr, softleaf_t entry)
+{
+ enum swap_pmd_cache cache_state;
+ struct folio *folio;
+ pmd_t pmdval;
+ int ret;
+
+ cache_state = swap_pmd_cache_lookup(entry, &folio);
+ if (cache_state == SWAP_PMD_CACHE_SPLIT) {
+ ret = -EAGAIN;
+ goto split_fallback;
+ }
+ if (!folio) {
+ struct vm_fault vmf = {
+ .vma = vma,
+ .address = addr,
+ .real_address = addr,
+ .pmd = pmd,
+ };
+
+ if (zswap_is_present(entry, HPAGE_PMD_NR)) {
+ ret = -EAGAIN;
+ goto split_fallback;
+ }
+
+ folio = swapin_sync(entry, GFP_HIGHUSER_MOVABLE,
+ BIT(HPAGE_PMD_ORDER), &vmf, NULL, 0);
+ if (IS_ERR_OR_NULL(folio)) {
+ ret = folio ? PTR_ERR(folio) : -ENOMEM;
+ goto split_fallback;
+ }
+ }
+
+ folio_lock(folio);
+ folio_wait_writeback(folio);
+ /*
+ * If the cached folio is no longer PMD-sized (e.g. split in the
+ * swap cache by deferred_split_scan() or memory_failure() while
+ * the PMD swap entry was installed), the PMD swap entry no longer
+ * maps a single contiguous folio. Split the PMD swap entry so
+ * unuse_pte_range() can swap the per-slot folios in individually.
+ */
+ if (folio_nr_pages(folio) != HPAGE_PMD_NR) {
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_put(folio);
+ ret = -EAGAIN;
+ goto split_fallback;
+ }
+ ret = unuse_pmd(vma, pmd, addr, entry, folio);
+ /*
+ * PTE fallback cannot add a single-page rmap to a newly allocated,
+ * PMD-sized !anon folio, and it cannot do anything useful with a folio
+ * that failed to read. Remove either from the swap cache so each slot
+ * is read back into an order-0 folio. An uptodate anon swap-cache folio
+ * can be mapped one PTE at a time and must stay cached so poisoned
+ * subpages remain visible.
+ */
+ if (ret && folio_matches_swap_entry(folio, entry) &&
+ (!folio_test_uptodate(folio) || !folio_test_anon(folio)))
+ swap_cache_del_folio(folio);
+ folio_unlock(folio);
+ folio_put(folio);
+ if (ret == -EIO)
+ goto split_fallback;
+ return ret;
+
+split_fallback:
+ /*
+ * Every reason we get here was observed without the PMD lock and
+ * possibly after sleeping, so re-check that the PMD is still the entry
+ * we were called for. A racing fault may already have swapped the range
+ * back in as a THP, and splitting that would demote it for nothing.
+ */
+ pmdval = pmdp_get(pmd);
+ if (pmd_is_swap_entry(pmdval) &&
+ softleaf_from_pmd(pmdval).val == entry.val)
+ __split_huge_pmd(vma, pmd, addr);
+ return ret;
+}
+#else /* !CONFIG_THP_SWAP */
+static inline int unuse_pmd_entry(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
+ unsigned long addr, softleaf_t entry)
+{
+ return -EAGAIN;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_THP_SWAP */
+
static inline int unuse_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pud_t *pud,
unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
unsigned int type)
@@ -2706,8 +2883,20 @@ static inline int unuse_pmd_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pud_t *pud,
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, addr);
do {
+ pmd_t pmdval;
+
cond_resched();
next = pmd_addr_end(addr, end);
+
+ pmdval = pmdp_get(pmd);
+ if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_THP_SWAP) && pmd_is_swap_entry(pmdval)) {
+ softleaf_t entry = softleaf_from_pmd(pmdval);
+
+ if (swp_type(entry) == type &&
+ !unuse_pmd_entry(vma, pmd, addr, entry))
+ continue;
+ }
+
ret = unuse_pte_range(vma, pmd, addr, next, type);
if (ret)
return ret;
--
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